[Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated edition of GILGAMESH

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Sat Apr 28 16:37:28 EDT 2012


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GILGAMESH. Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Quarto (8-3/4" x 
12-3/4") bound in ochre buckram stamped in brown pigment leaf with a 
reproduction of a 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablet mounted on the front 
cover. Translated by William Ellory Leonard. Illustrated with 9 
three-color woodcuts and 7 part-page black-and-white woodcuts and 
linocuts reproduced from the work of Irving Amen. Copy #457 of 2000 
SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. 
Some foxing to the bulked edge of the text. About Fine in glassine and a 
close to Fine slipcase with foxing to the backstrip. (#016358)        
$100.00

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